https://www.newsweek.com/child-dragged-california-highway-patrol-evicts-families-abandoned-homes-1550505

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    But somehow shit like this doesn't count as political violence.

    • RalphGrenader [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The power to control violence is the only reason for politics. Violence is the only political will. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise supports the current regime in control of the violence, tacitly or unknowingly.

    • anthm17 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Apparently what happened is they got seized for a project, project got cancelled, people moved back in, and now the state is throwing them out.

  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    highway patrol

    yes, clearly the violent removal eviction of families from the homes they live in vacant homes falls under the purview of the cops tasked with guesstimating how fast people go before issuing tickets for going too fast on the road specifically designed for people to go fast on. they definitely are capable of doing this inhumane completely necessary act in a safe and humane manner.

    the system works!

    :acab: :acab-2: :amerikkka:

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    People who decry "violence" don't understand that the state commits violence on people every day.

  • Holyfuckitsrachel [doe/deer,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Fuck pacifism. Fuck turning the other cheek until you wring your own neck for the sake of optics and ~~*avoiding escalation*~~ (they will always fucking find an excuse, even if it's a dumb one).

    Let that fucking headline sink in.

    Now think of your worst childhood memory.

    I say fuck pacifism because I've been there. I haven't been dragged from my home or yanked from my mother's arms by a Border Patrol scumbag, but I've been scared and lost and alone like that. My earliest memory is my father screaming in my fucking face because I wouldn't smile for a picture and I cannot even imagine being a normal, functioning person because of it. So I say fuck pacifism because I know how painful this child's life must be right now. I'm not a fucking radlib "organizer," who thinks this is a game of fucking chess, that this child's life matters but.

    We're going to have to fight a war at some point in our lifetimes, the way the climate is turning to shit, the way the mal aria of wildfire soot and [COVID] degrades the flesh of our lungs, so, like, y'know, play some Minecraft.